SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2722, 17 March 1916, Page 9

SUPREME COURT

TEST CASE ON VALUATION

LAW POIN r

lomts of law in connection with the Valuation of Land Act wero argued bcloi'G His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Hobert Stout) ill the Supreme Court yesterday morning, in the case ValuerGeneral v. David Brown Howden, an I'lfl?. 1 ' l >ro l»rty in Wakefield Street, \\ nllnigton. Mr. M. Myers appeared Jor the Valuer-General, while dir. A. W. Blair appeared for Howden. Interw"'n- n caso was a ' so hy the \\ e.llington Gas Company (represented by Mr. T. Ncave) nnd by an owner named Kirkus (represented by Mr. G. Samuel). 'j'he Court was asked to decido the following question:—Tlie owner having objected to the assessment of property, and having called on tho Crown to acquire it at. tho capital value, and tho Vnluor-General having thereupon reduced the value, should such reduction be on tlie capital value, or on tho unimproved value, or may the ValuerGeneral reduce both values proportionately?

After hearing legal argument, His Honour reserved decision.

LEAVE. TO APPEAL,

In the case of James Cowie v. the Paparoa Coal Co., Ltd., the defendant company recently appealed to the Supreme Court against the decision of f r " } • Biddell, S.M., who awarded the plaintiff (Cowie) £44 13s. and costs. His Honour Mr. Justice Hosking dismissed the appeal, but has granted leave to tire defendant company to take the ease to tho Court of Appeal, on condition that costs of the respondent on tlie lowest scale should be borne by the appellant in any event.

NAPIER SESSIONS

CASE OF SHEEP STEALING,

By .Telegraph—Press' Association. ~ „ Napier, March 16. ; At the Supreme Court In-day Samuel Wilson wa,s found guilty of stealing. 130 sheep at Takapau, and sentenced to" 18 months hard labour, and two years' reformative treatment.